Flying toy bird.



W. S. OLSON.

FLYING TOY BIRD. I

APPLICATION rum) APR-.12, 1900.

Patented July 19,1910.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FLYING TOY BIRD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 19, 1910.

I Application filed April 12, 1909. Serial No. 489,386.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER S. OLSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brownsdale, in the county of Mower, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flying Toy Birds; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to toys. formed to represent a flying bird, and has for one of its objects to produce a toy which when acguatled imitates the flying movements of a With this and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

F lgure 1 is a side elevation of the improved device. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

The improved device comprises a light hollow body 10, preferably formed of light sheet metal, and conforming to the outlines of a bird. Located in the lower port-ion of the body 10 is a counter-weight 11 of suilicient weight to maintain the body in a vertical position as hereafter explained. Extending transversely within the body 10 is a shaft 12 having two cranks 13-1 1 therein intermediate the ends and with two or more springs 15 connected thereto and operating to retain the shaft yieldably in one position, and to return it to that position, as hereafter explained. Pivoted at 1617 are the representations of wings 1819, the pivoting of the wings permitting them to be moved outwardly and inwardly in imitation of the natural movements of the wings. The wings are provided with inwardly extending arms 20-21, the wings being connected respectively by rods 2223. to the cranks 131t. By this means it will be understood that when the shaft 12 is rotated the wings will be caused to swing upon their pivots and thus imitate the natural movements of the wings. Connected to the shaft 12 is a drum 2 1 to which one end of a cord or cable 25 is connected. The cord 25 extends through an aperture 26 in the body 10 and is provided at its free end with a hook 27 adapted to be connected as by an eye 28 to a stationary structure 29. The stationary structure may be a wall, a post, a tree, or other object, in convenient position for the operator. Connected at 30 to the body 10 in advance of the shaft 11 is another cord or cable 31, the latter leading to any required distance and provided with a finger loop 32.

The springs 15 it will be understood are arranged to be maintained normally in their unwound position, and to consequently maintain the cord or cable 25 normally wound upon the drum 24, and then when a pull strain is applied to the cord 31 the bird 10 is drawn toward the operator and the cord 25 and the springs 15 unwound, and when the cord 31 is released the recoil of the springs 15 again winds the cord 25 upon the drum and moves the bird toward the stationary structure 29. Then by again drawing upon the cord 31 the action is repeated, and so on as often as required, the bird being thus constructed to pursue a flight in imitation of the natural flight of birds. At each motion of the bird the rotation of the shaft 12 is communicated through the cranks 1311 and rods 2223 to the wings 18-19, as will be obvious. The motion thus closely imitates the natural flight of the bird and amuses and interests the operator.

The body 10 may be formed in the imitation of any of the various birds, and of any desired size, and of any suitable material.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured, and operated by small children without the necessity of previous skill or experience.

What is claimed, is

The herein described flying toy comprising a hollow body, wings on the sides thereof having arms extending inwardly through and pivo-tally mounted in the sides of the body the pivots of said wings being parallel with the axis of the body; a transverse shaft having its bearings in the sides of the body and provided with a centrally disposed drum and with cranks on opposite sides of the drum, rods connecting said cranks and the inner ends of the arms of the wings, a

cord extending rearwardly through and In testimony whereof, I affix my signafrom the body and connected to the drum, a ture, in presence of two Witnesses. spring connected to the body and the shaft and acting to revolve the latter and the VALTER OLSON 5 drum to Wind said cord on said drum, and \Vitnesses:

a pull cord attached to the front portion of A. N. PALMETER,

the body. V. H. LAWRENCE. 

